When people describe a company’s product as “amazing,” allowing them to “take back control of their life” or say it is “giving our daughter her life back”; when they fly in from points around the country for treatment; and when health care practitioners in countries around the planet are on a waiting list to learn […]

There is an open secret among tattoo artists, dermatologists and the small group of researchers studying the effects of tattoo ink: Red ink causes the most problems. Problems include rashes — itchy, sometimes painful and occasionally disfiguring — and pseudolymphomas — benign swellings around lymph nodes that resemble cancers of the lymph system. Both rashes […]

In the immediate aftermath of a snakebite, a natural question is “Will I die?” Dr. William Rushton is co-founder of UAB’s Comprehensive Snakebite Program. The cutting-edge program offers state-of-the-art treatment and follow-up. (UAB) The answer is, very likely, no, even if the snake is venomous. Only about five people die per year from snakebite in […]

Back in March, UAB and community partners joined in creating a research battalion as part of the fight to end the COVID-19 pandemic. The UAB School of Medicine and the Hugh Kaul Precision Medicine Institute asked its researchers to submit proposals to compete for emergency COVID-19 grant money—funding that was raised through UAB and generous business […]

In early 2020, soon after it became clear that the COVID-19 pandemic was a serious threat to humanity, Kevin Harrod, Ph.D., the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s resident expert on SARS viruses, got a message from Matt Might, Ph.D., director of the university’s Precision Medicine Institute. “If we computationally predict drugs, can you test them?” Might wanted […]

People who fight off COVID-19 carry a powerful memento in their blood: antibodies that are primed to wipe out the disease. By lending these trained immune soldiers to other patients, survivors might be able to knock out three cases of COVID for the price of one. Antibody-rich blood plasma from people who have overcome COVID-19 […]

The entire planet, more or less, is fixated on the greatest pandemic in modern memory. Claire Elliott is already preparing for the next one. Elliott, a junior from Franklin, Tennessee, is part of UAB’s Undergraduate Immunology Program, one of a handful of such programs at universities in the United States. In high school, where she was […]